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Stephen Bryen

Essays in Technology, Security and Strategy

Synopsis

Technology security visionary Dr. Stephen Bryen has published a new collection of pivotal essays on national security and cyber security to help policy makers and citizens understand the real threats facing the security of the United States.“Essays in Technology, Security and Strategy” targets important questions including:
• Is the U.S. still a Great Power?
• Will NATO and Europe fight?
• Will Japan build its own nuclear weapons?
• Why Iraq is a national security disaster
• After an Iran deal will there be a Saudi-Israeli alliance?
• Why spying is out of control
• Sharing our defense budget with China

Author Biography

Dr. Stephen Bryen has 40 years of experience in government and industry. He has served as a senior staff director of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, as the Executive Director of a grass roots political organization, as the head of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, as the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Trade Security Policy, as the founder and first director of the Defense Technology Security Administration, as the President of Delta Tech Inc., as the President of Finmeccanica North America, and as a Commissioner of the U.S. China Security Review Commission. Dr. Bryen's extensive experience and high effectiveness has earned him the highest civilian awards of the U.S. Defense Department on two occasions and established him as a proven government, civic and business leader in Washington D.C. and internationally.

Author Insight

A Byte for a Byte

I propose a hard nosed cyber policy for the United States as a practical way to defend the critical infrastructure of our country.
Our government talks a lot about cyber security, but the reality is that it has done almost nothing to reduce the vulnerability.
You cannot win by trying to build fences. You win by taking the fight to the other guy who is doing you harm.
That is the essence of my thought on how to stop cyber attacks.

Book Excerpt

Essays in Technology, Security and Strategy

To the degree we have any policy, it seems it is to sit on our hands and watch as our defense secrets are stolen, our technology compromised and our commercial, transportation, energy and banking systems threatened. Do we want to watch attacks on nuclear power plants when the result could be another Three Mile Island or Chernobyl?

The policy we have is purposefully defeatist and highly dangerous. The idea that Secretary of State Kerry would go off to talk to the Chinese and ask them to be nice about cyber attacks is absurd on its face and demeaning to the United States. The time to talk to the Chinese is after we slap down a cyber intrusion that came from Beijing.

The policy I advocate is a byte for a byte. It is biblical. If you mess with our power plants, we can mess with yours. If you strike at our banking system, we will hobble your banking system.

This message should go out to the Chinese, Russians, Iranians and anyone else who thinks they can attack us without penalty.